Ann Clwyd broke down in tears this week as she described how her husband died "like a battery hen", surrounded by nurses who treated the dying man with "coldness, resentment, indifference and even contempt".

"I will always regret that I did not ask more questions," she told The Guardian, telling how whenever she asked about the care her husband was receiving, she was ignored or brushed off.

What are your personal experiences and accounts of treatment of NHS nursing staff in UK hospitals? The Guardian's reporting team want to hear experiences from patients or their loved ones across the UK.

Did you try to make your concerns and complaints heard but found yourself ignored? What do you think about the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt's comments - echoed by Clwyd - that, in the worst cases, NHS staff have overseen "a kind of normalisation of cruelty"?

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